Senate strips measure to open ANWR to drilling

WilliamL. Watts

The Senate rejected President Bush's top energy policy goal, opening part of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration. On a 52-48 vote, the chamber backed a Democratic amendment that stripped language from the 2004 budget resolution that would have cleared the way for drilling in the refuge.

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